El Septimo Sello Quotes & Sayings

To understand is to possess the thing understood, first by sympathy and then by intelligence. — Henri Frederic Amiel

Would the world be a better place if all drugs were legalized tomorrow? Absolutely. But pragmatically speaking, you're not going to go from the criminalization of all drugs to the legalization of drugs overnight. — Gary Johnson

You can't control what people gravitate to and what they don't. We can only control the work that we do and try to give it the best that we can. — Donnie Wahlberg

But the problem with readers, the idea we're given of reading is that the model of a reader is the person watching a film, or watching television. So the greatest principle is, "I should sit here and I should be entertained." And the more classical model, which has been completely taken away, is the idea of a reader as an amateur musician. An amateur musician who sits at the piano, has a piece of music, which is the work, made by somebody they don't know, who they probably couldn't comprehend entirely, and they have to use their skills to play this piece of music. The greater the skill, the greater the gift that you give the artist and that the artist gives you. That's the incredibly unfashionable idea of reading. And yet when you practice reading, and you work at a text, it can only give you what you put into it. It's an old moral, but it's completely true. — Zadie Smith

I propose that it only matters that you attempt to catch a fish. Doing so brings you close to nature. — Fennel Hudson